CH3: Girls meet boys – girls’ point of view
Maria was at the top of the hill of the Area 15, to visit Andrews’s grave. She visited him whenever she went on a hunt. She knew she should move on but she didn’t find it fair that her first love had to die on her, shortly after asking her to marry him. She choked out a sob. She missed his easy smile and bright eyes, filled with passion, when he talked about music. He wanted to teach the younger students music. She missed his familiar smell and the protection she felt in his arms. She knew he had no fighting talent like she did but his arm offered her protection.
She was pulled out of her day dream when she saw a metallic bird flying overhead, with one of its wings on fire. She had never heard of a metallic bird before…. Was this one of the capitols new inventions? She heard her sisters running up to her. They knew about Andrews grave a few months ago when they followed Maria to his grave. Lily and Angel looked scared. Olivia had no emotions on her face but you could see the burning curiosity in her eyes. Katrina had anger written all over her face.
“What the heck was that?” she demanded. Her blonde hair was no longer in a messy bun but in a messy pony tail. Maria shook her head.
“I don’t know Kat. I have never seen anything like it before.” She admitted.
“We should check it out” said Olivia.
Her sisters stared at her as if she was crazy. Olivia felt her defensive side crawling back to her.
“Look, we should check it out. If it was that was a capitols new invention, imagine what would happen if they added their guns onto it, it could wipe out a whole Area, with a size like that. If we check it out, maybe we can find a defensive strategy against it” She said with and edge of defensiveness.
“I agree with Olivia, if we can’t figure out if it’s a capitols invention or not, we may not be able to defend ourselves against it if we don’t have information on it” said Angel after a long time. After she had finished, the metal bird had crashed into the water. One shared look and they were off, with their weapons at the ready. Sprinting through the forest, they dodged, jumped and cut their way through to find a beach on the other side. They blinked in surprised. Most of the island was guarded by electric wires. The sisters looked at each other.
“Maybe they forgot to seal that bit off, hoping no one would find it” said Lily hopefully. Olivia shook her head.
“Unlikely, the Capitol wouldn’t leave that much space unfilled, people do get curious and won’t let electric wires hold them back if they are truly determined Lils. I’m worried about this. It would be very bad of the capitol to leave that much space alone” Said Olivia, with a hint of worry in her voice.
She knew just how cruel the Capitol was. They had whipped Maria when she was only seven for hunting in the woods for food for the festival that night. Maria doesn’t remember much because she fell unconscious after ten whips. But they capitol forced the villagers to watch. Mother and Father wouldn’t let Maria out of their sight after that. Maria scanned the land while Katrina scanned the water. Her eyes caught something the same time Lily yelled out.
“Look! In the water! It looks like a boy” she said excitedly.
Angel and Lily walked into the water and began to swim to the boy. Angel and Lily stopped when they reached the boy and held up five fingers. Olivia, Maria and Katrina swam out to them. They gasped at the sight of the boys. They had lots of blood sweeping into the water. They also seemed to be unconscious.
“Let’s take them back home with us. Hopefully, when they wake up, they’ll be able to tell us more” said Katrina. They each took a boy except for Maria. She kept staring at one of the boys that looked like the replica of Andrew. It broke her heart to see his ‘twin’ lying there.
